Gilbert Yvel’s Fond Memories of Getting Pummeled

“I came to fight; Josh just came to take me down. He sat on me for
three rounds, punching my head in with punches and elbows. … I
remember the last couple of punches, and he almost knocked me out a
couple of times. I got some black and white flashes and I was like,
‘All right, that’s enough.’ I think that was awesome. That was
fighting. Like, ‘OK, you don’t want to fight with me standing and
you take me down? OK, let me stay here and try to punch back and
fight back and keep going until I can’t anymore.’ Awesome. My first
two black eyes. I even had a split lip. My face was messed up. A
couple of my best friends were in town and those people are honest,
brutally honest. After the fight I went to my room, took a shower
and I [saw] myself in the mirror and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I
walked upstairs and all my friends were sitting on the stairwell.
They turned their heads and they saw me and they were like -- they
didn’t know what to say. They all tried look like, ‘Um, um, um,’
but they were all just quiet. It was terrible. I think that was the
biggest moment in my career.”